Need Advice on 2.0 Re-Install/DeBug

[nuro]

Hi,

We are about to reinstall 2.0 on Ubuntu, Tomcat 5.5 & MySQL, after not having any luck ridding the system of errors that looked a lot like timeout issues with the DB. I didn't do the initial install, but under moderatly heavy use the system kept crashing and a Tomcat restart would fix it for a while. We did a manual WAR install and are going to rip out all Alfresco files, but leave the DB.

My question is this: After studying the Install notes for myself, I read this:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Repository_Configuration#New_Installations

I found we weren't using ANY of the 3 files mentioned here so when the server was started for the first time WIITHOUT them, did it just use other config files for these settings? (documentation doesn't speak of this)

Can I remedy this without a full reinstall?

NOTE: We placed the custom-repository.properties sample file, removing the .sample, in the proper Tomcat shared folder but the file is not getting read on a Tomcat Re-Start. (we broke the XML syntax to test, and there were no errors in the log so we assume it's not being read)

Thanks Much.
Paul

[jml75]

Hi,

As far as I know, the default configs are located in "/var/lib/tomcat5.5/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco".

But if you put the proper files in "var/lib/tomcat5.5/shared/classes/alfresco/extension", you can override the default behavior of the system, for example connecting to the DB using the proper DB pass and user.

Hope this helps you.